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Voluntary, Virtual and Overseas – An Article

Voluntary, Virtual and Overseas – An Article

The employer should consider the usual issues associated with international mobility: social security contributions, income tax, payroll deductions, bank accounts, tax returns, registration requirements, immigration permission, corporation tax, employment laws and collective agreements, whether she should be employed by the Home Country employer or a Host Country entity instead etc, etc. »

2010 Quality of Living worldwide city rankings: Mercer survey

2010 Quality of Living worldwide city rankings: Mercer survey

European cities continue to dominate the top of the ranking.Vienna remains at the top, Baghdad at the bottom, Calgary is first in the new eco-city ranking, London ranks 63, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality of living, according... »

Effective Relocation Management

Effective Relocation Management

Effective Relocation Management Cost-containment Emily Tuite, Head of Communications at ECA International, looks at the opportunities for containingthe cost of assignments and highlights the dangers ofbeing too economical. Making expatriate management cost-effective is always on the corporate agenda – but nevermore so when times are hard.... »


Effective Strategies for Expatriate Cost Management

Effective Strategies for Expatriate Cost Management

We all know that expats are expensive and that a significant proportion of assignments fail - but what can be done to manage costs and to maximise the overall... »

Routes to the Top – How CEOs embrace Global Mobility

Routes to the Top – How CEOs embrace Global Mobility

32 % of FTSE 100 companies have a foreign national as CEO and 67% of FTSE 100 CEOs have been on assignment during their working careers. Among the Fortune... »

Talent mobility 2020: PwC report investigates the future of international work

Talent mobility 2020: PwC report investigates the future of international work

The globally-connected nature of trade, technology, capital, and regulation will necessitate a significant swell in the movement of employees between countries, leading to increased use of short-term and ‘commuter’... »

Global Relocation Trends Survey 2010

Global Relocation Trends Survey 2010

The Global Recession Forced a Record Number of Companies to Cut Back on Overseas Assignments of Employees in 2009; Outlook for 2010 Shows Significant Optimism for a Rebound, New... »

Linking employee benefits to corporate responsibility strategy

Linking employee benefits to corporate responsibility strategy

There is growing evidence that a company’s corporate responsibility (CR) activities help attract and retain quality employees. Evidence shows that talented professionals want to work for a company fi... »

HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer: Offshore Offspring

HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer: Offshore Offspring

Commissioned by HSBC Bank International, Expat Explorer is the largest ever global survey of expats. Now in its second year, the survey has questioned more than 3,100 expats on... »

European Global Mobility Challenges 2010 Survey Report by Interdean

European Global Mobility Challenges 2010 Survey Report by Interdean

At the beginning of 2010, Interdean commissioned a survey on the challenges facing organisations operating international relocation programmes out of Europe. The first of its kind, the survey was completed... »

Expatriate spouses: what do they want?

Expatriate spouses: what do they want?

Every time an expatriate employee returns home before completing his or her assignment, their employer loses $1 million. That’s on average – it could be more. HR makes a... »

Neutral Swiss hurt by Libyan row

Neutral Swiss hurt by Libyan row

Neutral Switzerland has had its reputation as a global mediator dented as weaknesses in its foreign policy are exposed by its escalating row with Libya, analysts said. »

Expatica Awards winners announced

Expatica Awards winners announced

Expatica HR Top 5 Industry Survey Awards' top ranking survey reveals that, despite the economic crisis, the overwhelming majority of companies still feel the need to send expatriates abroad... »

Highly skilled spouses want to work during assignments abroad

Highly skilled spouses want to work during assignments abroad

The survey has sharpened focus on partner employment needs and their impact on assignment success and international mobility. It has also provided clear evidence that work permits for spouses... »

HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer Survey 2009

HSBC Bank International Expat Explorer Survey 2009

Commissioned by HSBC Bank International, Expat Explorer is the largest ever global survey of expats. Now in its second year, the survey has questioned more than 3,100 expats who... »

UK: Migration Advisory Committee, Meeting the needs of the UK economy through selective high-skilled immigration

UK: Migration Advisory Committee, Meeting the needs of the UK economy through selective high-skilled immigration

The first review by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) of the highly skilled migration routes (Tier 1) of the Government’s Points Based System for managed migration recommends that the... »

Expat Culture Shock Revisited or Is It Really All About Going Through the Stages

Expat Culture Shock Revisited or Is It Really All About Going Through the Stages

However, if you read the research available out there on Culture Shock, you’ll discover, that most of it presents the phenomenon of Culture Shock as something that consists of... »

Recession hastening move to indirect taxation, says KPMG report.

Recession hastening move to indirect taxation, says KPMG report.

Recession hastening move to indirect taxation, as governments act to increase revenues, says KPMG report Long term corporate tax rate declines halted in Europe and Latin America Many governments making active... »

Top Wanted Occupations in UK and Scotland

Top Wanted Occupations in UK and Scotland

The MAC advises the government on skills shortages that can sensibly be filled by migration. If its recommendations are accepted, teachers in special schools and skilled meat boners and... »

Global Comparison: Employee statutory and public holiday entitlements

Global Comparison: Employee statutory and public holiday entitlements

Employees in Europe receive the most generous statutory holiday allowances in the world according to data released by Mercer. However, taking public holidays into account, employees in Lithuania and... »

Global Relocation Trends – The Brookfield GRS Results

Global Relocation Trends – The Brookfield GRS Results

To gauge the impact of current challenging times on international mobility, Brookfield Global Relocation Services (Brookfield GRS) conducted a series of in-depth interviews with senior international mobility professionals from... »

Myths and Truths of the 183-Day Rule

Myths and Truths of the 183-Day Rule

It is not uncommon for tax advisers to hear cross-border business travelers say they are not subject to tax in the country they are visiting because they have spent... »

China Rising: the Growing Global Mobility of Its Human Capital

China Rising: the Growing Global Mobility of Its Human Capital

China’s labor force is becoming increasingly more urban, skilled, educated, generally more talented, and more “global.” Companies have already begun hiring Chinese nationals for roles in China that were... »

An Easy Mistake to Make? UK’s senior law officer falls foul of UK immigration procedures

The case of the UK Attorney General, Baroness Scotland and the employment of an illegal immigrant as a cleaner illustrates the complexities placed on UK employers by the Borders... »


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